An aid organization earmarked 30 million US dollars to help half a million children go to school in the next three years in South Sudan.
Plan International will use part of that money to give food and non food items to the people affected by multiple conflicts in Jonglei state and other areas in need of humanitarian emergencies.
Plan says it will use 12 million to build schools in Central Equatoria and in Jonglei states from 2014 through 2015 to 2016, in a bid to increase school enrollment in the country.
Plan Chief Executive Officer Nigel Chapman said his organization is investing an additional 30 million dollars for the next three years for children’s welfare in Jonglei’s Pibor County, and Juba, Lainya and Yei Counties of Central Equatoria in addition to other areas in need of emergencies.
The charity also said it would encourage school dropouts to join vocational and technical training in order to acquire necessary knowledge to earn a living.
Plan said it would use 18 million dollars to address humanitarian crises cost by fighting between rebels of David Yau Yau and the SPLA together with inter-communal conflicts in Jonglei state and other humanitarian crises elsewhere in South Sudan.
South Sudan lacks school infrastructures.
The few available schools were constructed by South Sudan development partners after the signing of peace agreement in 2005.
Mr Chapman agreed it was not an easy task.
Plan Country Director Gyan Bahadur Adikhari said the operation would begin with the humanitarian emergency in Pibor, Jonglei state.